The Lizards - Phish
8.3.03 - IT Festival, Limestone, ME

This was one of my favorite Phish moments.  It wasn’t my first version of Lizards, but as the festival wound down, and this dropped in the third set after a fiery 46 Days and Julius, a certain calm washed over the entire crowd.  I was about five rows back, dead center in front of Trey, and I snapped this photo as the band entered the ending jam:

Like the photo, there was a certain symmetry and unity to the whole thing.  Not just in the band, and not just in the lights, and not even the music; but in the air and in the people.  It was one of those moments where it was bigger than any of us, it was simply the experience of being together in the middle of nowhere, living in the moment and loving life.

It’s moments like these (and there have been a number of them, and certainly a few during Hampton) that have me looking forward to being with Phish on a summer evening with a cool breeze at our backs while the band hits that stride that I’ve only ever see Phish hit.  It’s something special, and we’ll see it all over the country this summer, from Jones Beach to Bonnaroo, at Red Rocks and out in The Gorge.  We’re really lucky to have these four guys still alive and making music in 2009.